PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Dmitri Tymoczko is a composer and music theorist who teaches at Princeton University. Widely recognized as one of the world's leading music theorists, his music has been performed all over the world.
Tonality: An Owner's Manual is Dmitri Tymoczko's dazzling answer to the controversial quest for a transhistorical definition of tonality. By disentangling what composers do from what theorists say, Tymoczko presents a fascinating exposition of common compositional principles that animate Western music from Renaissance polyphony to jazz, rock, and contemporary triadic idioms. * Suzannah Clark, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University * Dmitri Tymoczko is an original musical thinker who combines mathematical skills and good musicianship in search of universal principles of pitch organization. Tonality: An Owner's Manual continues this quest in proposing a geometrical, hierarchical voice-leading theory that has applications across diverse musical styles. It is written with admirable clarity. * Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition, Columbia University *
